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K Contemporary is excited to announce the upcoming opening of “Oddments”, a solo exhibition by Melissa Furness.

In her newest body of work, Melissa Furness depicts compilations of objects commonly used within the history of painting as a critique of the traditional Western canon of art. Furness extracts common elements from their original sources and recontextualizes them as a collected pile, like rubbish, to visually discard as cliché rather than to individually revere.

Her subject matter here depicts collections of items that were repeated motifs of their day, representing ideals of …